Hello,
while digging through the interface between ethtool and kernel,
I noticed that ethtool commit 5dd7bfbc5079 ("ethtool: Add DMA Coalescing
support") added new member dmac into struct ethtool_coalesce which is
part of kernel UAPI but there is no kernel counterpart to this change in
master, net or net-next tree.
This doesn't cause any serious trouble as with userspace structure
longer than kernel thinks, kernel would simply ignore the extra member
so that the feature "only" doesn't work. But I doubt such change could
be accepted to kernel side of the interface as new kernel would then
overflow shorter structure passed by older ethtool. Stephen Hemminger
mentioned the ABI compatibility issue when this patch was submitted:
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/806049/#1757846
Does it make sense to have ethtool feature without kernel counterpart?
Michal Kubecek
